I lived in St. Petersburg from February to late June, 2011.
The city is incredible – simultaneously beautiful and difficult. I would recommend visiting to anyone. Whilst the winter snow is certainly a bit magical, it makes getting around pretty hard. The best time is definitely June: the weather is brilliant, there’s a celebration almost every weekend and the light lasts all the way through the night.
Frozen Neva
White nights in St. Petersburg (photo taken at midnight in mid-June)
Defenders of Leningrad monument
Kazan Cathedral in summer
St. Nicholas Naval Cathedral
Victory Day
Jordan staircase, the Hermitage
Smolny Cathedral
Chesme Church in the snow
Jordan staircase, the Hermitage
Mayakovskaya metro stop
Lenin
Northernmost Buddhist temple in the world
Elagin Island
The Bronze Horseman in the snow
Aliye Parusa festival
Pivskarevskoye memorial cemetery
Winter palace on the river Neva
Winter Palace
Church on Spilled Blood, park view
View from St Isaac’s cathedral
Great photos, looks like a magic place.
Thank you. It really is an amazing place, would love to head back soon – just a shame it’s not cheaper or easier to reach.
Looks gorgeous – is there a cheap way to get there from the UK?
Jet2 do package deals there now, but otherwise the cheapest way is to fly to Tallinn and then get Eurolines bus to SPB for about £20-30. The latter is obviously a bit time consuming, but it’s easy enough.
The snow looks so magical but brrrrr…. looks insanely cold!
Once it gets past -15 it’s all the same 😉
After that – it’s just numb??